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A deserted elevated seat overlooks a burial procession with no identified dead person.
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Ecclesiastes 8:9-10

Power and Forgetting

Authority, Delay, and Unsearchable Work · Ecclesiastes 8

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9All this I have seen while giving my attention to every deed done under the sun, at a time when man ruled over man to his harm.

10And so I saw the wicked buried; they had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This too is vanity.

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